Bio of Henry Oscar WILSON (b.1865), Yellow Medicine Co., MN
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HENRY OSCAR WILSON (1891)
Henry Oscar Wilson is one of the big farmers of Yellow Medicine county,
owning and farming 400 acres--the southwest quarter of section 26, the
northwest quarter of section 35, and the south half of the northwest
quarter of section 26, in Friendship township.
Mr. Wilson is a native of Wisconsin and was born in Columbia county
October 20, 1876. His parents are Ole C. and Annie Wilson, also
residents of Friendship township.
In 1879 the family moved to Renville and lived there six years, after
which they moved to Dickey county, North Dakota, where they lived until
the spring of 1891, when they moved to Yellow Medicine county and settled
on a farm in Friendship township near Clarkfield. Henry O. lived with
his parents on the farm until 1901, and then rented a farm of his father
on section 26, now farmed by his brother Halvor, and lived there until
the fall of 1912, when he moved to his own farm on section 26, which he
had purchased in 1903 and had farmed. He already had a house on the
place and he erected a big barn and other buildings in 1912.
Mr. Wilson was married November 25, 1900, in Normania township, to Helma
Rolstad, who was born in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, March 14, 1882. They
have three children, as follows: Irvin Leroy, born September 28, 1902;
Wallace Leland, born August 27, 1906; Hiram Leo, born February 12, 1910.
Source: "A History of Yellow Medicine County" by Arthur P. Rose
Published 1914